The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1298 or 1298?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1298?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1298| = ?
The absolute value of 1298 is the distance between 1298 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1298:
Since the distance between 1298 and 0 on a number line is 1298, we get the answer as follows:
|1298| = 1298
Note that the absolute value of 1298 can also be written as abs(1298) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1299
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